A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical EssaysDorothea Kehler This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory. |
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... structure unnerves Malone, who concludes that this must be an early play. Presumably, had Shakespeare been older, he would have known better. That Malone, an Irish scholar who chose to live in London, writes two years after the American ...
... structure unnerves Malone, who concludes that this must be an early play. Presumably, had Shakespeare been older, he would have known better. That Malone, an Irish scholar who chose to live in London, writes two years after the American ...
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... structural characteristics and the much remarked upon discordia concors motif. Shakespeare's philosophic content, however, is presented more subtly than Chaucer's. Providing another summary, R.A. Foakes (1984) devotes eight pages to a ...
... structural characteristics and the much remarked upon discordia concors motif. Shakespeare's philosophic content, however, is presented more subtly than Chaucer's. Providing another summary, R.A. Foakes (1984) devotes eight pages to a ...
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... structure of A Midsummer Night 's Dream (331). G. Wilson Knight (1932), perhaps the best-known investigator of ... Structure and Formal Design John H. Long (1955) attributes structural unity and harmony to Dream, qualities denied it two ...
... structure of A Midsummer Night 's Dream (331). G. Wilson Knight (1932), perhaps the best-known investigator of ... Structure and Formal Design John H. Long (1955) attributes structural unity and harmony to Dream, qualities denied it two ...
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... structure contrasts attitudes and types of love with little regard to individuating characterization or realistic passion. For James E. Robinson (1968) the play's structure inheres in the fusion of ritual— magic and marriage—with ...
... structure contrasts attitudes and types of love with little regard to individuating characterization or realistic passion. For James E. Robinson (1968) the play's structure inheres in the fusion of ritual— magic and marriage—with ...
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... structural importance of the Pyramus and Thisbe material. For M.E. Comtois (1980) the play's structure accounts for its durability in the theater. Like Rose, she offers a diagramatic analysis. Contained within the dream concept are ...
... structural importance of the Pyramus and Thisbe material. For M.E. Comtois (1980) the play's structure accounts for its durability in the theater. Like Rose, she offers a diagramatic analysis. Contained within the dream concept are ...
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